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ArticleMaterials today. Bio2021

Long term expansion profile of mesenchymal stromal cells at protein nanosheet-stabilised bioemulsions for next generation cell culture microcarriers.

Lihui Peng, Julien E Gautrot

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Article in Materials today. Bio, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lihui PengInstitute of Bioengineering and, UK.
Julien E GautrotInstitute of Bioengineering and, UK.
Queen Mary University of London · GB

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tremendous progress in the identification, isolation and expansion of stem cells has allowed their application in regenerative medicine and tissue engineering, and their use as advanced in vitro models. As a result, stem cell manufacturing increasingly requires scale up, parallelisation and automation. However, solid substrates currently used for the culture of adherent cells are poorly adapted for such applications, owing to their difficult processing from cell products, relatively high costs and their typical reliance on difficult to recycle plastics and microplastics. In this work, we show that bioemulsions formed of microdroplets stabilised by protein nanosheets displaying strong interfacial mechanics are well-suited for the scale up of adherent stem cells such as mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs). We demonstrate that, over multiple passages (up to passage 10), MSCs retain comparable phenotypes when cultured on such bioemulsions, solid microcarriers (Synthemax II) and classic 2D tissue culture polystyrene. Phenotyping (cell proliferation, morphometry, flow cytometry and differentiation assays) of MSCs cultured for multiple passages on these systems indicate that, although stemness is lost at late passages when cultured on these different substrates, stem cell phenotypes remained comparable between different culture conditions, at any given passage. Hence our study validates the use of bioemulsions for the long term expansion of adherent stem cells and paves the way to the design of novel 3D bioreactors based on microdroplet microcarriers.

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Cell manufacturingEmulsionMesenchymal stem cellMicrocarrierMicrodropletProtein nanosheet

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PMID34841241
PMCPMC8605361
OpenAlexW3212670824

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